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..j- , . . . .v " -v--' ; - . -!.:. -. , '..'.-''' " - ' ; V ' " . i . .... ' . . .. " . ...-.-.. ; -f Vrrrr '-X-L. .. ! r . -; v . '--A,- ' y" " ' . ' . t - " V .. ' ' S - V . ' ( '. ..s ',; . .. -1 A Frew the TIME PIECE. . , The KirAL candidates for the FAVOURS f AmRlC-i. WEALTHY girl in beauty's bloom, To court her, lo i what fuitors come ; An heiref;. fne. to vaft ettate, ' ' What rivals for her .Favours wait. ' M hope to clafp her. in their arrrid, Each fees in her a thoufand charms ; Tlie gems, that on her bofom glow, . AttraiM-where love was colJ, till now: Freed from a foreign parent's care, - -This maid, fo wealthy and fo fair, ' Of each, that for pofftflion fues, Could hardly tell which beau to chccfc. Proud of his vahV extended reign, His floating empire on the main,' The Briton for her favours fued And fpoke in words (he under (load. ' prince will proceed direcllv to the head-quTmcTs oT general Akinzi : he, willaflume lite command of the army : and after having allemhled all the troops, and received the 'reinforcements.-, he will rccom- f -me nee holtiiities..' commoded and difgulied, got tip, Went into the room inn-keeper, aVew minuses after", tormeftted with a defire to appropriate to fiimtlf. the depoflt which had been confided to him, went info the chamber where he had placed his gueft, and.Hfufpcding nothing of what had palled, limck the unfortunate perfon afieep in the bed with two (Vrqkts of an axe, J ' The next morning, on his enttringthe eating room the firlt object hp fa7' was the merchant, whrh he thought he had kill.ed,..vho immediately bejan to com plain to him bf his fon, who had obliged hm to quit his bed. . The inn-keeper, difcovering his'rnillake, was immediately taken- lick ; he confefled his crime; and was ftiged on the fyot. Kis- proct fs is now mak ing out ; he will foon be executed, as he denies no thing".""' : ; : -- . V I E N N A, March r. Oo-Wediielda'v la;l, tf.e .iichvlu.xe iccei. t d a billet from the emperor, in-form or"-a decree, .declaring L E X I N G T O N. Anrll We are informed by the polt-riders.Vthat about, ten days ago the .Indians killed eight men in Mero diftrict, Cumberland, that a party raifcdl anclpurfuedl the Indians, and Silled leven or eig,hr ol them. Strong apprehenlions are entertained by the people orr.lui; country ct a war wuu tne outnern Indians. N O T I C E. .:..A:GrtKBLE;i -tX pafl;d;at Raleigh in tlie year 1 79 entitled . " An act the more1; cd'eetually to feture the pnyfinn!: of the tax on lands ; and to prelcribe the duty ci" the county courts in certain cafes." Will be ex pofed to iale at the court houie in the County of Du plin, on the 18th of Oclober next, lor the payment of the taxes, the. following lands- viz. 640 acres on tlie caft tide of the North-Eafl river, 640 acres on the weft fide ofthe North-il-ll rivers joining James Murrow, len. -3000 acres 011 the North- Eaft ma rfli, joining Tho mas IJarlieid. . : '- She tlio't his ftyle by much too coarfe, She would not y ield her heart to force ' " Give me (faid Hie) my'fliips again, And I'll admit you in my train. , The Iane, the"D utchman, and thtrStvcder -'hehftvndsJitin Johnlion ftj. of Edenton. ; JOHN WRIGHT, Sfonf. Dupllii crjutv, Jlay 2 J. 63 ; At dm.ince eyed the charming maid ; The RufTijci, bred in froft and lnow, --.,-I'elt indiis brealnew ardors glow. . The Spaniard grave, with cloak and fword, Some favours from the nymph imploi'd. Vain were his tears, and courting art'i She could not bear a jealous heart. - - "... N. The Turk himfelf, to engagi htr love, Erom .A (ia' coalt began to move. While faded lay his Tartar crown, He wiiV-d ta make her wealth his own. The Frenchman came with leering eye," And from his breait hove many figh Talk'd much and loud of favours pait, -An4wareJiisJave.Aould..ai.:A,3yl FItONTIES;:QjF TYROL, March -ip; - The force which the Trenclj are collecting on all fides to commence their opera't ions -again It tlie Auf trians.ia Tyrol and Friuli, has now increafed to So, coo men. A leci.fi ve battle may foon be expCled. Tlie French, who feem toniitend to r.ft in tour co liur.iis, continually advance with iAcreafed ilrength'i while the Aullriaus retreating, have taken fome Urong pofitious on tiie iivers'Livenzp -and Tg-liamento. .An aCiiuu of fome importance has-taken .place on the"Priva, between- tlie 'Fi?:icji.and Aullrians, the illue of which Ins been unfavourable to. the impel i-al srms. The Anltrians can no longer difpute- the pai- 7 N O T I c e: 7 " THE Coaimidiont-rs of.the town o( Lumbertoa appointed to make1 conveyances "to lots, gives this public "notice, that all lots in the tovvn thitliavo not iieen yet elajmed, will qn.the r 4th day of July, be f jld at. pubncfale to the highelt bidder. The con-.litious will b'e twelve months credit, with bond and fectrrity g'.ven to the truitecs of the Luniberto academy. KI.IAS KAllNf.S, " TOHrV.'-STORM;- : ' Robert haills. JrV 8A, 1797.' 59 ;m. , E OH ON .the 1 8th of July h I.umberton, and will S A L E, ext, at'ihe court-houje ill will continue fromdav to day uniil -the whole is fatisfied, the following lands, or T Thatlfovfromr roirrro-ncc.- Iie fav'd, 't ; ';.., . And many a danger for her bravid- She dropt "fome tears at what he faid, - But tho't it was no time to wed. Then thus to all her fuitors cryM, I wifh not yet to be a bride Woe'er would in my eye excel, The fecret is to treat me well. If you would in my bofom find r ' - The treasure that enflaves mankind, Take not my (hip feize noVmy men, - As fome have done and you know .when. ANECDOTE. A". . A poor fellow in Scotland, creeping thro' the hedge bf an orchard, with an intention tp rcb it, was ken by the owner, who called out '.to him, "Sawn h;y, hoot, hoot moii ,' tvhere'; are you going ? ,"'-tx Bod agtn': i ays Sawney. ' fore xTiey 15eg7n to ad! 'oft'enlivly. ' Tooo acres en AffipSol-Tvanip, 3cc7acrVn'"Fro"'r' Buonaparte is arrived at-Vefoha from Bologu?., by fwartip, 5co acres on the Indian fwamp,' fuppofed to .t . r - f . i . 1' ! 1 . . 1 . -Ik. il . 1 n':n:':.. 1 v. i- ' .. me way ci ivtaiuua, aim isxen 111s . licao-quitners ut m i niumi i.iaiu ; 5-0 acres on lybtmira alf-thc pcTitrons cf the--rreneir -troopsj-iit-a fituation . to-obferyc both Tyrol and rruih , i r t l " A f Vrcoruiog t.o. .tome accouiits, lie lias couipiaincci or the p.Mti.ility wfich the Venetian, republic nianifclted for AuIlrM,- thrtatening at the f ur.e time to't.n.at the Venetian tcrri-toris in an hoilile ifianncr. Th'M.H'ad the cffcctl that Vf riii'p confented to- 'ba-V"a mlltu . ; . r ' - Zechiu3,;to be treated as a neutral power. on c i Capture of i en cir frigates. - '.'-.' r '.' . .;AVAL .BELLICKRKNCY. . . .' .- - - - London. ?.!arcli i3. : . , ' .- ' ir..f "Ti'tTF "1 rT pit. . a p u n. : :; : For Politicians nolfof. the Ladies. The Jacbbins growled at Mr. J A Y, for killing tire hand of the king of England, when envoy extraor--dinary to. that country, which by cuflom had been t( tabliflied as a mat k oTcb7dTal approbation and accept ance" of a diplomatic charafter ; and which to have withheld, woidd iSve been immediately conceived infultin'g.; but thefe. very demons .w a their fails, when they hear that-citizen NfirM'k'OEdeliveicda compli aaentary addrefs to the direcSbty ofa 1 government fjuft about to drive away the legal repiefentation of the ...United. States, knd lhat.he exhibited a. rdlpefa to orctjr.b, at !ca,-Marciiot. 197. ( I have ti e Jatislaccioir to accjnainr you, that, jfter having (agreeahly o your direction; with the i(iiliui't; oTcaOtalYi' Cook-e, of his maiftty's lhip, La jNymn!ie, under my .oxdep, reconnoitred the ene my's force in tlie outer T6TH of U ealt l:arbour. apt . Cook-a" informed me, '.htf law two (hips to the welt ward", (landing in for Breajt , in confequence of which, we racked, and madsa41rc!6!c-oa a-vind, ; tor the pur pole ot gaining the weathtrjrage, vvhiclt being with tale accompli Hied, we bore dowtt-upon;- tlie ibi03 together, diaving alcertaincn them to lie tv; i--nfli trigrgt'fcy ;- f-'ufj'aj u'e-,vere not nio're than !?'- B R U T A L ATP E T FT E. . InXondon, a coal porter lately eat for a wager, ag.ainft a irtaffiff dog belonging: to Mr. H. a quanttty ofboiled bollock's liver., vhea-hc porter, bein the dirtieft'dpg;of the two, beat hu" antagonift, by an half found, . -':.- ,'. : '?.' P A R EUruary. . ' Yeflerday one of. my friends (hewed me a letter dated at Munich, which' related the followingjaft, that had recently happened in a village in the 'environs of that city. f "' . rSA merchant having arrived in the evening at a vd. Iage in "the environs of- Munichepaked.tolAn inni JepgjaE-JL'g aqlla1nt3n After having lnpped with the' mader, he tQpk him apart and rcqutfted him takfi.xliariOLeuLtiLmorninrrof'k fum -of a thoufand. flprinsjw hTc hjie haVyit Km . The in ii-keepe f -af-terwards conducted him to a diftant chamber of the " lioufc," where hisr foii gen'erally. fleptiwhjvwatlien from hbmerand was-not iexpefted to- return-Tlie. foil, rieverthelefs' arrived in the middle ofthe nigjht, and fiiidin'" .vfry-bny alapp, entprfA thf hoiife byta fecret pafTage which- he had often made ufie of and repaired to his chamber, where rhfijaid down-along fide ofthe merchant.' As he was li'itoxicaied hi;. Auiiiach4Wedf--charged the wine he Bad drank. The merchant, in- two or - three-lea ussirom- Point- ist. . Matthews, with a leading wind out of Breafl, .and the French '"fleet -rn figfit from our tops, it was an objedt of great im.portance to be as decihv as poliible in our nldd e "of ma ckr riioft, we both engaged her very'armly, ; t; thr cl ill a n c e o f a bo a r 40J y a i ds, a n d . com ui pel 1 e d her t o ,liirrend.er alter a (Tiort refi(iaf;ce. By this time, . the fmalTe'f frigate had arrived.iip, and beitig imme diately attnektd iii the fame manner as the former, her relittance,. though better made, was not long1; file (truck .her colours about nine o'clock, A. The whole of the action was a running fight, and- did not la(t more than half an hour. : - ' Tlie (hips takenare, La Refiitance, commanded by Monf. Montague, mounting 48 guns, 18 poun ders 011 her main deck, and rnanned with 345 men. She is.only 6 months old, built upon anew condrUc tion, and is, in every relpcct, one of the fiheft fri-, -gates the French--had, and --certainly the.largcft, Tneafurirg 41 feet beam. The other frigate La Con -itanp, fnmmanrlfd hy iMnnf, Defanney, mounting it. n.n.I.J...l. rj 1.- .t. r mt-iii-!iuY4UVUrtuj.,iiuKUK) ihff- 1 1 if J)T O ry"OE John Stokes ; 5o6 acres on the- north fide of Dun's . niai fii.-fuppoiVd to be the property of Henry 1. anke (ler ; 2?o acres, fuppoftd to be the property, of the heirs of Jofhua ( lel orn ; 240 aces in. the fork of the . liig-niarlh and Dutch Ford brnr.cb, (aid to be the. property of Griffa M'Uee, and C urtis hey ; l.'yj acres on the .welt fde of Aihpool fwamp, foppofed to be the property of-Hrafwell Hunt ; 100 acres on the wed fide of Horle-fwamp, the property of C harles' Lucas, junior -';?6, 7-0 acres, given in "by Ridrrard'" fciack'ledge, for David Allifon and John C. Blount ; alio 7GC0 acres by William Henerjv j ' - - -ROBERT HAILLS, Sher)f. L v;;.--.-;.',;," 7hr.-v 1 $7 ' -"' ' "": '"': " 63" TO BE SOLD, V AT Public Veiidue, un the firlt Monday in July next, at the Market Houle in Hillfborougli, EIGHTEEN '"TfaelT of L K D,. lyiog'in tlie ' county' of Orange, purfuant to a decree of the '" court of-Equity for the didridt off Hillfboroujih, the (aid lands are under mortgage to the (tire' for one third of tlie original purcliale money, for which fum with intereft from the year t7?2, and cofls of fore clofnre. they will feverally be (old Twelve' months " credit will be given, for the fum decreed to be due oil each, flioud the lands go as high Ca(h will . be. ... ?qa5re"dforo(y-T3f- theTaicl lands 1 will "be tod"bf'iWXr&r-Trer faid to be bf etcellcnt quality and advantageoully li- :' tuated, having been taken up manji years ago. ANDREW MUllDOCK, 24 0 poanders upon the main deck, , and manned witbli-SamenTlfhe is two rears old. and a very fine ' (hip i ihe9r'ixc t wg'-ct,the 4rig'atervMcant1edt have - completed the failure of tills expedition. am particularly liappy.to. inform your lordfiiipthat neither the St.; Klorenzo or La Nymphe have had any men killed or woun,dqd, or ; the, jfliips hurt : T h c -S t . Flererzo only has received tvvo fh ot ) n h ef " hull. La' Refinance had 10 men killed, tl'iefirit lieu ttnf "d 3 men wounded. La Conftance-had 8 men killed, and o woujided.'' ' : ' ', ep 8 ; . SherifF of Orange. RUN-AWAY from the fubfcrlber, a negro man,' named DOCTOR, formerly belonging to Mr. William VV'atfon, in Bladen , county-rhe is about twenty-tfiree years of age, middle fize, ftutters when he fpeaks, and is branded on both; c.hetks with H LL when he . lived with me, lie went by the name of JorihT Moon n Whofoever will fecure thefai4 ' negro fo that I may get him, will receive a reward of ten dollars for their trouble. '; " . HENRY LOUIS LUTTERLOH. ".- Chatham, May ytfi, ' , 613 . ,.'"' Dr. PERKINS Metallic Points, Whofe -effitraqy. have been-experienced in fd-T great a variety of inlbrices as to convince V the niolt oblliiiate, ' - - ( - ' To be' had of the Printers hereof. . Vr Fcjy 'fdle at the"Printing-Ojfiey The L AWS .of the laft felTion of thv r General Aflembly. , ,N'' . ..A L S 0-: T II E e-r v- .
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